http://gary.wcasales.com

This site uses NopCommerce 1.5. Here are some details about the implementation:

Each of our sales representatives markets our products and services through a site personalized for them via a sub-domain alias (such as “gary”). Trying to access via “www” will prompt for the alias to be entered if it is your first time visiting the site.

We did quite a bit of integration work with our existing web-based functionality. For example, the Discount Healthcare category is heavily customized.

The product descriptions are very long in the Home Innovations category, so we built a simple jquery plugin to convert product content into tabs without needing to embed specialized markup into the detailed description. It is mentioned in this post (http://gxclarke.blogspot.com/2010/03/tabify-no-markup-jquery-plugin.html).

We also created a payment gateway for USAePay, which (unlike the one included with 1.5) doesn’t redirect to a third-party site.

On the admin site, we added some modules to manage fulfillment via third-party shipment, a tool to scrape an external site (with their agreement) to automatically build the products in the Vacation Packages category, and a module for creating commissions from paid orders.

Last but not least, we implemented our own multi-lingual entities since full support of Spanish was a hard business requirement for us.

Maintaining our ability to upgrade to new versions of NopCommerce was important to us, so we were quite careful to approach our customizations in a way that minimized impact to the existing code base. The development work was actually all done on 1.4, and we upgraded to 1.5 with about one day of work. If anyone is interested, I will share some of the strategies we employed. It is the ease of structured customization that really made us appreciate how well written and modular NopCommerce is.

Regards,
Gary

Good job!

very professional.

Website looks great

Your site looks great. Well done! The jQuery plugins really have been a game changer for so many aspects of development.

Would you mind posting your development/upgrade strategy to this thread: https://www.nopcommerce.com/boards/topic.aspx?topicid=3575

Thanks,

Chris

Hello Gary

Could you please give us any feedback/suggestion, which theme did you chose to modify ?

and it will be great if you could share any strategies in customizing theme.

crholliday wrote:

Chris, I just posted to that thread. Regards, Gary